"Во дни сомнений, во дни тягостных раздумий о судьбах моей родины, — ты один мне поддержка и опора, о великий, могучий…"

"What is Bazarov?" Arkady smiled. "Would you like me to tell you, uncle, what he really is?""Please do, nephew.""He is…"

"For myself, I detest the fellow, and think him a charlatan. I am certain that, in spite of his frogs, he is making no…"

"Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.""

"Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone."

"Naturally," observed Nikolai Petrovich, "you were born here, so everything is bound to strike you with a special —""R…"

"The intellectuals of that time, while never so superficial as those I am talking about, indulged in revolutionary ide…"

"[H]is first important book, A Sportsman's Sketches, revealed to the world two things: the dawn of a new literary geni…"

"Our author first made a name by his striking sketches "The Papers of a Sportsman" (Zapiski Okhotnika), in which the m…"

"Unquestionably Turgueniev may be considered one of the great novelists, worthy to be ranked with Thackeray, Dickens a…"